The use of Dig A Crusher and Dig A Screener excavator-mounted crushing and screening buckets is helping Surrey-based stabilised material reinstatement specialists, SMR, to cost-effectively grow its UK network of recycling centres for waste from utility street works.
SMR is pioneering the UK market for premixed reinstatement materials with its ‘Premixd’ solution. This can recover up to 100 per cent of road and pavement spoil and transform it into a high quality product that can outperform traditional materials such as Type GSB aggregates.
Through its sister company, Sustainable Aggregates and a growing number of third party dealers, SMR is establishing a nationwide network of recycling centres. These allow utility companies to avoid landfill charges by tipping their waste for recycling while at the same time collecting SMR Premixd material to reinstate works.
Good spoil management is key to the recycling process with waste needing to be screened and oversized material crushed. This is achieved through the use of Dig A Crusher and Dig A Screener excavator-mounted crushing and screening buckets at a significantly lower capital outlay compared to trommel screens, thereby helping to make local recycling centres more commercially viable. They can also produce screened and crushed material at a much lower cost per tonne.
Being excavator-mounted, the bucket screeners and crushers can easily work in a fraction of the footprint taken by trommel screens and require just one man to operate, which can be any excavator driver.
‘We have been very pleased with the performance of both the Dig A Screeners and Dig A Crushers in terms of their flexibility, speed of processing and reliability,” said SMR managing director, Clive Holloway.
“In any operation like ours, especially for smaller or developing sites, capital outlay is an important consideration, especially as we substantially increase our network of local recycling centres for utility firms and their contractors.”
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